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There are now more than 10,000 R packages available from CRAN — and much more if you include those available only on GitHub. So, to be honest, it's difficult to know all of them. But sometimes, you discover a nice function in one of them, and that is really awesome. Consider for instance some (standard) censored lifetime data:

Recently, Anat (currently finishing the Data Science for Actuaries program) helped me discover a nice R function to add information to that graph (well, not that graph, since it will be a ggplot version, but the same survival distribution plot):